ISBN:
9781782381693
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (344 Seiten)
Series Statement:
War and Genocide 6
DDC:
305.23/089/9915
Keywords:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes
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Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of History
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Children, Aboriginal Australian Cultural assimilation
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Children, Aboriginal Australian Government policy
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Children, Aboriginal Australian Relocation
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Frontier and pioneer life History
;
Genocide History
Abstract:
Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with the arrival of the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, the authors identify the moments of radicalization and the escalation of British violence and ethnic engineering aimed at the Indigenous populations, while carefully distinguishing between local massacres, cultural genocide, and genocide itself. These essays reflect a growing concern with the nature of settler society in Australia and in particular with the fate of the tens of thousands of children who were forcibly taken away from their Aboriginal families by state agencies. Long considered a relatively peaceful settlement, Australian society contained many of the pathologies that led to the exterminatory and eugenic policies of twentieth century Europe
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782381693
URL:
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